The British Atlantic World 1500-1800 (Problems in Focus)

by David Armitage

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The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 gathers an international team of historians to present the first comprehensive account of the central themes in the histories of Britain, British America, and the British Caribbean seen in Atlantic perspective: the state, empire, migration, the economy, religion, race, class, gender, politics, and slavery. Together, the essays will be a primary resource for students and teachers and a stimulus to researchers in British, American, imperial, and Atlantic show more history more generally. show less

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David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University. Alison Bahsford is the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge.

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